Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Most interesting.

Most interesting, Baker Mayfield and the Bucs against Joe Burrow and the Bengals.

I think that needs a lot more attention.

I think Buccaneers-Bengals is a lot of fun, and my worst would be the Cardinals going to SoFi to take on the Bolts.

But you think about the slow starts for the Bengals, you kinda toss out the home field advantage scenario of it, and the continuity of a defensive approach versus an offense, like you said, has kind of tried to retool itself and re- you know, reimagine its style going into this year.

There's more room for uncertainty and less steady ground, solid footing for the Bengals than there is the Buccaneers.

And I honestly think that the, the most intriguing part of this is what you mentioned as well, which is that pass rush against-

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the Bengals' offensive line.

Because what we've known about the Buccaneers is that they've had to blitz to manufacture pressure in recent years.

That may not be the case this year, starting with the addition of Reuben Bain, and it's not just him.

Um, they had a couple good receivers.

Mike Williams got drafted, uh, uh, to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Um, Syracuse hasn't really popped off a lot of Super Bowl heroes.

Of course, the, probably the biggest one is non, a, a non-fantasy player.

And the continuity of a defensive approach versus an offense like you said, has kind of tried to retool itself and re- you know, reimagine its style going into this year.

There's more room for uncertainty and less steady ground, solid footing for the Bengals than there is the Buccaneers.

And I honestly think that the, the most intriguing part of this is what you mentioned as well, which is that pass rush against-

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the Bengals' offensive line, because what we've known about the Buccaneers is that they've had to blitz to manufacture pressure in recent years.

That may not be the case this year, starting with the addition of Reuben Bain, and it's not just him.

So, uh, I like that.

All right.

The final one against the Bucs.

This one, I think we've heard from Trevor and we've known this for a long time.

Any good team is player led, right? Well, Liam Cohen said at some point the players need to take over.

Well, hey, we're storytelling along the way.

But I also think it's interesting to see the markers.

You know, you go a couple weeks into camp, Saints, Carolina, the Bucs, and how this thing progressed.

And I think we're in a point right now where the Jacks feel really good about things.

That's actually a very valid one.

No one knew it at the time, but it actually turns out now that Tom Brady, the legendary quarterback of the New England Patriots, and at the end he played with the Buccaneers for a couple of seasons.

Now that he's retired, it basically came out that one of the reasons he got divorced is actually his wife, that model, Giselle Bejinder or whatever, she actually apparently had been telling him for years, like, you have to stop playing, like, you have to, you know, spend more time with your family.

And basically he extended it as long as he could.

How much does it limit the offense, Jeff?

Tremendously, because look, Andy Reid can talk all he wants to about feeling good about Khalil Benson since that Bucs preseason game and being excited he doesn't make the same mistake twice, whatever.

It's going to be different.

And we have no idea how he's going to respond to that.

what is best in life To crush your enemies, see them driven before you.

Chris rides in the Citadel, gunning back on the Buccaneers in the low country boil bowl in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ryan, next up, let's jump over to Stonehill, New Hampshire.

Has there been a more disappointing team than New Hampshire this year? I mean, I get it.

Here we go.

Bengals host the Buccaneers in Cincinnati on Sunday.

Baker fresh off that new deal.

He's going to come in fat and happy.